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Quotes by

Friedrich Nietzsche

Not necessity, not desire – no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything – health, food, a place to live, entertainment – they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied. – Friedrich Nietzsche

Fear is the mother of morality. – Friedrich Nietzsche

Faith: not wanting to know what is true. – Friedrich Nietzsche

Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience. – Friedrich Nietzsche

In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad. – Friedrich Nietzsche

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species. – Friedrich Nietzsche

When one has not had a good father, one must create one. – Friedrich Nietzsche

Whoever does not have a good father should procure one. – Friedrich Nietzsche

The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy. – Friedrich Nietzsche

He who laughs best today, will also laughs last. – Friedrich Nietzsche

In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad. – Friedrich Nietzsche

The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer. – Friedrich Nietzsche

Art raises its head where creeds relax. – Friedrich Nietzsche

The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art. – Friedrich Nietzsche

Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it. – Friedrich Nietzsche

Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest. – Friedrich Nietzsche

For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication. – Friedrich Nietzsche

When art dresses in worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art. – Friedrich Nietzsche

Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day. – Friedrich Nietzsche

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude. – Friedrich Nietzsche